* David Bremner:

> Do you have a suggested replacement? I guess some inline perl with "use
> Cwd 'realpath'" would probably work, although I haven't tested it.

At a quick glance, that particular section of "configure" is run by
doc/conf.py to generate three lines of Python code and store the result
as sphinx.config, correct? If so, my preferred choice would be to use
Python to figure out the absolute path, e.g. like so:

  rsti_dir = os.path.abspath('emacs')

This shows the generated result, and I assume that emacs is a directory
in the source tree? I also wonder if an absolute directory path is really
required for the doc-build to work.

The segment of conf.py which uses the generated config file does not
look convincing to me anyway. Apparently the original author did not
like it either, which is why the segment is labelled as "hacky". It
should probably be overhauled, and not only because it uses the
statement open(rsti_dir+'/'+file) which will potentially fail, depending
on the build platform.

-Ralph
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